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www.citizcnol.com Page 4 Tuesday, June 12, 2001 Daily Citizen OPINION 'mmmm Voters to pare 33rd Senate race today DAILY CITIZEN Established February 20, 1911 James Kelsh PublisherEditor James E. Conley President Francis W. Connors Publisher Emeritus Denise Fitzsimmons Advertising Director Barbara J. Hohnberger Circulation Director 1 percent to 25 percent who usually go to the polls for primaries. Marcello said the light turnout could negate some of Kanavas' fund-raising advantage.

Voters in these types of elections tend to be more dedicated to a candidate and less swayed by mailings and advertisements. "This is such a race that's based on getting your base out," he said. "I have a big base. Those people, I don't have to buy to get out." Still, Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said the primary is becoming a case of the haves and have nots. And those with the most money tend to be the only ones with a realistic shot at winning.

"What that means is those candidates do all the talking. They're the ones who get their message out, and the other candidates are scarcely heard," McCabe said. "The voters are not given a real choice in those races." the more awareness you can build," Schellinger said. "Any candidate that's spent a lot of money has a tremendous advantage." Waukesha attorney Dave McCormack said his $250 donation to Kanavas was his first political donation. He said he met Kanavas because their daughters attended preschool together and got involved in his campaign because he was attracted to his conservative values.

"I feel that's his character. It isn't something he's just putting a game face on for an election," McCormack said. Elections Board Executive Director Kevin Kennedy said turnout for today's race would likely be between 10 percent and 15 percent. The last Senate special election to fill a seat was in 1998, won by Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin.

Just more than 11 percent of voters turned out for that primary, compared with the 20 Republicans running in Tuesday's primary to replace Margaret Farrow, who resigned last month to become lieutenant governor. The winner will advance to the July 10 general election to face Democrat Dawn Marie Sass, who has no primary opponent. She reported spending nothing so far on the race and has raised $2,019. Attorney Ken Dortzbach was No. 2 in fund raising among Republicans at $29,856, according to the reports.

He spent more than $10,000. Real estate broker Dave Marcello raised $24,669, while business owner Scott Newcomer raised $21,081. Marcello spent the second-most amount of money, $20,229. The other three Republicans retiree Leo McLaughlin, car salesman Thomas J. Schellinger and attorney Jennifer Fargo Valenti each raised less than $6,000.

"The more money you have, By JR ROSS Associated Press Writer MADISON A former aide to Tommy Thompson has outspent and outraised his fellow Republicans in Tuesday's race for the GOP nomination to fill the 33rd Senate District, according to records filed with the state Elections Board. Ted Kanavas collected $72,005, including a $25,000 loan from himself, and spent $30,440 on the Republican primary for the district that covers portions of Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. He's outraised his nearest competitor by more than $40,000 and outspent him by more than $10,000. "People need to know where you stand, and you can't do it unless you send them something that tells them where you stand," Kanavas said Monday. "They can't read my mind, and not everybody is going to go to our Web site." Kanavas is one of seven The Daily Citizen (USPS 047360) is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Citizen Newspapers, LLC, 805 Park Avenue, Beaver Dam, Wis.

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(326-51 51 Waupun, 1 1 1 8 1 12 W. Main St. (324-5555). Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Citizen, P.O. Box 558, Beaver Dam, Wis 53916 YOURVIEW To the Editor: Welcome to Lake Days 2001 Festival.

Another year has come and gone since the 2000 Lake Days Festival and now we are beginning Lake Days 2001 starting this evening. The Lake Days Festival will kick off with the Pageant at the Beaver Dam Mall crowning our Miss Beaver Dam Lake and Little Miss Beaver Dam Lake. I would just like to say a few words as the chairman of Lake Days this year. I would like to thank all the businesses that have donated money, prizes, and support that was needed to make this festival even happen. There are many events planned for this year and we hope to see every one there.

There is food, games, entertainment, and much, much more for all. We have local talent such as National Karate Center and skateboarders. From the wonderful donations from the local businesses we will have some contests for the teen dDance on Thursday, Kids Olympics on Saturday, and great entertainment all weekend. Along with that will be entertainment on Friday by the Vic Ferrari and Saturday there will be entertainment by the HazeSouthern Gypsies Band and fireworks display at 9:30 p.m. This event requires a lot of work from a few honorable people to plan and organize.

These few people have been working since August 2000 to make the 2001 festival bigger and better every year. We have seen growth in the Beaver Dam area along with this festival. We tend to have a variety of events during the weekend and a brochure can be picked up at most of the local businesses in town. There also will be an insert in this paper that will advise you of the activities during the weekend. Bringing the community together can also help people catch up on lost times, and to be able to relax and have fun at the same time.

Beaver Dam Lake Days was made to help with improvements on our lake and the parks around Beaver Dam. A special thanks to the who helped this festival take part. The Steering Committee has been working diligently this past year and will provide you, the citizens of Beaver Dam and all our visitors a wonderful, enjoyable Lake Days weekend. Please take some time to sit back, enjoy our great lakefront, parks and let us entertain you. 2001 Lake Days Steering Committee: Jason White, Doug and Carrie Sackett, Karen Bilitz, Diane Bell, Dick McMillian, Don Laabs, Shelby Weber, Don Kordus, Len Lauth and many others Key imiM jiip No last words necessary THERVEWS ject were many local businesses who graciously agreed to put the posters up where kids would see them.

We are writing to thank the businesses who helped and the community for supporting the poster project. We ask each of you to personally thank the business owners when you see a poster around town. Beaver Dam is a great town which supports healthy projects and encourages kids in healthy actions. Congratulate the kids you know for being part of the nonsmoking majority. The Beaver Dam Tobacco-Free Coalition To the Editor: Since January, a project has been under way in Beaver Dam to help young people learn the facts about smoking.

The facts are, "most Beaver Dam kids do not smoke (eight out of 10); most teens do not. want to date a smoker; and smoking gives you zoo breath, wrinkled skin, and yellow teeth." Often kids, and adults, have the impression that most kids do smoke. Through this project, Beaver Dam youth have learned the truth most kids don't smoke. Thus, they know that by not smoking they can be like other kids. Helping in this important pro- to be very difficult to open and prefer to patronize stores with doors that operate automatically; shopping at the mall as a last re sort.

To the Editor: Three cheers for Lucille Zrepc-zyk. The article in the June 7 edition of the Citizen was right on target. I find the doors at the mall By HOWARD KLEINBERG Cox News Service What so many anticipated did not happen. Timothy McVeigh had no last words, just an old poem he left behind to be read as a display of his insolence. He really didn't need any last words.

His manifesto of hate and retribution already have been circulated through biographies (both authorized and unauthorized), interviews and within a series of letters to his hometown newspaper in Buffalo. A question that gnaws at me: Despite McVeigh's right of free speech drawn from the government he so hated that he had to kill 168 innocents to try to make his point, was that right so paramount that those who published his venom felt obligated to print or broadcast it? It is an old argument, certainly encompassing a recent, if not continuing, brouhaha over dotcom companies offering Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf translated as "My Struggle" for sale on the Internet. Some groups believe it ought to be banned while others say that would play into the book burning philosophies of none other than Hitler himself. I won't pretend to come down on the side of book burning but I certainly hope that the dollars accrued by McVeigh's manifesto of mayhem be used somehow in memory of his victims, not his cause. There is an interesting correlation between McVeigh's last minutes and those of another infamous anti-government reactionary Guiseppe Zangara who, in 1933, tried to assassinate then President-elect Franklin D.

Roosevelt but missed and, instead, inflicted fatal wounds to Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. From the moment of his capture, which was immediate, Zangara spouted acrimonious statements about government and capitalism, so much so that many believed he was a madman and, as such, should not be executed. From the date of his crime in Miami Feb. 15, 1933 until his execution, only 33 days passed, so swift (or arrogant) was justice in that era. BUT FOR THOSE last words: Zangara wanted his heard.

He wanted to use them to further his antipathy. And while he was dismayed that photographers were not allowed into Florida's death chamber at Raiford "Lousy capitalists. No picture. Capitalists! No one here take my picture. All capitalists lousy bunch of crooks," he shouted from the electric chair his last words seemingly were broadcast to the world: "Good-by, adios to all the world.

Push the button." Interestingly, one newspaper refused to use its space to repeat those and other vituperative pronouncements from within the death chamber that day. The Miami Daily News, being an afternoon newspaper (remember those?) had first crack at reporting the morning execution but prefaced the brief story with this editor's note: "The details of Zangara's electrocution are not published by this newspaper for his every action pleaded for sensational public attention and the Miami Daily News is unwilling to lend itself to such a purpose." That's not going to sell a lot of newspapers and none others practiced the same self-restraint. They dove into great detail, not only describing Zangara's death throes but quoting his misguided bravado when guards tried to take his arms and escort him to the chair: "I'll go myself. I no scared of 'lectric chair," he was quoted dialectically on the back page of The New York Times. The difference between McVeigh and Zangara, however, is that Zangara's full manifesto was not revealed until 65 years later.

At the time of his execution, Zangara handed the warden his memoir, hand-written on Death Row. Warden L.F. Chapman put it in the family safe where it lay cloistered until a surviving family member loaned it to a Fort Lauderdale attorneyauthor just a few years ago. "The Five Weeks of Guiseppe Zangara," by Blaise Picchi was published in 1998. By then, what Zangara had to say didn't matter much; Timothy McVeigh already had struck.

Unlike Zangara and the system of six decades ago, McVeigh's opinion of the world around him and his lack of remorse for those he killed and injured was showcased early on. Did he have that right to be heard? Indeed. Did others have the right not to publish it? They did. But went ahead anyway. Like McVeigh himself, it's the nature of the beast.

Howard Kleinberg, a former editor of the Miami News, is a columnist for Cox Newspapers. Win Grady Beaver Dam McVeigh execution no comfort Cox News Service Timothy McVeigh's execution provided, at best, a patchy, poor sort of closure for the families of the 168 people killed and the survivors of the April 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. For many, the pain never will entirely, but some things will be different. The execution means they'll be able to watch television or read a newspaper without seeing Mr. McVeigh's face.

The same might be said of the nation. It has been focused on the execution of a clean-cut ex-soldier who committed the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil. Yes, he shattered any delusion that America is impervious to such violence. Yes, he was an interesting specimen that, in the end, defied definition.

But enough already. Mr. McVeigh went silently only at the very end. Prior to his last hours, he gave interviews discussing his twisted logic. He made headlines for showing no remorse.

He heaped scorn on the government for its bungled handling of evidence. But when death truly awaited, apparently even he thought he had said enough. His only communication was to ask the warden to release his handwritten copy of "Invictus," a melodramatic, circa-1875 poem; its narrator takes pride in being "bloodied but unbowed." President George W. Bush nailed it when, shortly after the execution, he said, "Final punishment of the guilty cannot alone bring peace to the innocent." That will take time, and a hard effort to recall that out of this great evil came example after example of great good, of humanity reasserting itself against the terror of one human gone irretrievably bad. That know ledge is not enough.

It doesn't begin to answer how to stop some other well-scrubbed young American from confusing thousands of pounds of explosives with a morally justified political statement. But this chapter is 0-er. That's cold comfort, but there's precious little else to be had. The Daily Citizen welcomes and encourages letters to the editor on subjects of interest to our readers. The most effective letters are brief, and to the point, but all letters will be considered for publication.

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I SlEtSGl? 7 LING. KJHO 1 PCeSNl PRINK 9 Defender program boosted for state MILWAUKEE (AP) The Legislature's budget-writing committee has endorsed creating a new public defenders division to handle cases that currently must be turned over to private attorneys because of conflicts of interests. The 16-person bureau for the Milwaukee public defender's office would take on cases that normally would have to be sent to attorneys in private practice, at a cost of nearly $1.6 million for the first two years. The project would save the state at least $500,000 by its third year, officials said..